While perusing the web this morning I ran across something that made me very happy; the playstation 3 has finally been hacked!  Hacked by Geohot, the same guy that first hacked the iphone no less.  This guys a legend!

Currently this doesn’t mean anything other than a glimmer of hope for us frustrated owners of the PS3, but Geohots released an exploit, tutorial, and encouraged hardcore console hacking enthusiasts to document research on the psDevWiki.  This means that hackers can start building software to enhance the playstations capabilities.

Sony built a console with tons of potential as media centre, and marketed it as such.  Sadly however, they failed to deliver anything more than something rather mediocre.  I’d love to make my PS3 my media centre, but it just isn’t good enough.

In case Sony (who are no doubt depressed right about now) come across my blog heres a few features I desperately want in my playstation.

1) Last fm scrobbling.  I’ve been scrobbling music to last.fm since 26th March 2004.  Building up statistics of music I listen to.  I’m not going to play music primarily through my ps3 until it can scrobble my plays.

2) Media Server Capabilities.  If you want me to put all my media on my ps3, then I’d damn well better be able to share it with my other devices.  Why cant I sync it to an mp3 player?  Stream it to my laptop or other computers?

3) I bought a PSP because provided my ps3 is on standby, I can travel, and providing I have access to the internet, use my psp to turn on my ps3 and browse the media on it.  I’d presumed my psp would be able to DOWNLOAD the media from my ps3, not simply stream it…  Seriously, I mean, if its streaming the media anyway, then all the psp needs to do is SAVE the media for playback when my psp is no longer connected to the internet.  How is this not an obvious idea?  I have since sold my psp.

Now that the ps3 has been hacked, and hope renewed for hackers hardcore or not, maybe we can let ourselves dream about ps3 features we would love to see.

What would you like to see enabled on the playstation 3?  Leave your comments below.

Thanks once again to Geohot for improving my iphone, and making this leap of progress for my ps3.

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J linked me up to this awesomeness on youtube, it gets uber around halfway.

I haven’t been blogging in ages.  However I do intend on getting back into the habbit.

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Daphni calls me an old man for listening to Jazz, Blues and generally more “mature” music (or so it is perceived as).  The thing is though, that most pop/rap/hiphop/dance/punk/rock music (etc) is all really shallow and boring.  There are exceptions of course, such as Dan le Sac vs Scroobious Pip.  These guys are awesome!!!

Check em out!  (don’t be fooled by their performance on the x-factor)

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The Hidden Words are a collection of short utterances, in which Baha’u'llah (the author) has taken the essence  of past dispensations and “clothed it in the garment of brevity” as He says.

Earlier this afternoon I came across this site.  Where Nathan & Nabil Huening have put some of the Hidden Words in a musical form, and offered it up for anyone to listen and download.  Of course we are free to donate towards this service.

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Rowshan are a music duo consisting of cousins Na’im Cortazzi and Payam Beint, their music is pretty chilled out and uplifting.  Na’im’s a friend that lives really close, he came over tonight and we where talking about Rowshan’s online presence. (mainly for last.fm)  I helped him get Rowshans first 2 albums up and available for people to listen to.

You can have a listen here

Celestial Soul is my favourite album of the two (album art shown to the right).  It came out in late 2008 and is really strong.

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